I feel privileged to read this fantastic book. What a book this is to simplify the principles to lead a good life. The book begins with the fascinating quote by W.H. Auden: If we really want to live, we’d better start at once to try; If we don’t, it doesn’t matter, but we’d better start to die.

Who on earth doesn’t want to lead a happy, satisfactory and productive life? Most of us want to, but we go through life in misery and feel inadequate or compare others and put ourselves down and waste our time, potential and energy. This small book, with only 150 pages of text (with 31 pages of notes, references and index), vividly explains about everyday life and how we can engineer (or design) it to experience flow-producing activities and enjoy both work and leisure and ultimately life itself.

This book makes a stunning point: our life consists in experiences related to work, to keeping things we already have from falling apart, and to whatever else we do in our free time. It is within these parameters that life unfolds, and it is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art.

So basically, life is about how to experience flow in our work, in our leisure, and in our relationships. The book ends with an emphatic tone: When we act in the fullness of the flow experience, we are building a bridge to the future of our universe.

This is a must read for anyone who want to understand life and enjoy it to the max.